Reading the Landscape

One of the things that I enjoy the most about farming is that I can see things in the landscape that I never saw before. I have created a connection with the earth.

To me, these are my beans. You may look out at them and all you see is a field of green beans. But, as I gaze out over the rows of beans, I see where I knocked the seeder over so there was a particularly dense patch of provider seeds which translated into an area loaded with plants . I can also tell that I put these babies in the ground a while ago, before I got the hang of walking in a straight line. I know the history of these beans and it makes them taste even better when they are on my dinner table (and I hope on yours).